Monument record MDO1864 - Bowl barrow north of Holworth, Owermoigne

An overgrown bowl barrow, 44ft diameter by 5.5ft high on the spine of a spur running north-east. <1> <2>

SY 76548401. A bowl barrow, extrememly overgrown, with two water storage tanks resting on its top. Diameter 15.0m, height 2.0m. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs <5> to the north of Holworth, Owermoigne. The barrow is sub-circular in shape and measures approximately 12 m in diameter. The barrow is scheduled together with three others located to the south and west (see MDO1860, MDO1861 and MDO1863). This feature was digitally plotted as part of the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project.

Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/093 RCHME Inventory: Dorset II (South-East) (Unpublished document). SDO17434.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 122 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 76548401) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 447 (Monograph). SDO150.

‘(28) Bowl (SY 78 SE; 76538400) on spine of spur running N.E. Diam. 44 ft., ht. 5½ ft. Overgrown.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 17-JUL-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Dorset County Council, XX-XXX-2002, Dorset CC Vertical Digital Photo Tile (Aerial Photograph). SDO13248.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454205 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 12 2023 4:43PM